Dictionary

pencil pusher en · NOUN

Etymology

US origin, 1881.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, informal, often) One who does routine office work; someone involved mainly in paperwork.
   • The internal investigator for the Macon Police Department had the dour, lifeless personality of a career pencil pusher. 2013, Karin Slaughter, Busted, Random House, →ISBN:
   • “[…] I don't have her creative genius or her version. I'm a numbers man, like my father. A pencil pusher, as Amanda said.” With no balls, he added silently. 2012, Danielle Steel, The Sins of the Mother, Random House, →ISBN, page 285:

Forms

Relateds

pixel pusher · desk job

Synonyms

desk jockey · office worker · bureaucrat · paper-pusher · pen-pusher

Translations (28)

sk kancelárska krysa (one who does office work) · cmn 管帳員 /管帐员 (one who does office work) · da ni-til-femmer (one who does office work) · sv kontorsråtta (one who does office work) · de Sesselfurzer (one who does office work) · fr gratte-papier (one who does office work) · no kontorrotte (one who does office work) · ro conțopist (one who does office work) · et paberimäärija (one who does office work) · es chupatintas (one who does office work) · pl biurokrata (one who does office work) · es cagatintas (one who does office work) · da papirnusser (one who does office work) · cs kancelářská krysa (one who does office work) · it scribbacchino (one who does office work) · pl urzędas (one who does office work) · ca pixatinters (one who does office work) · fi konttorirotta (one who does office work) · ro scriptolog (one who does office work) · pl zarękawek (one who does office work) · de Bleistiftstemmer (one who does office work) · es tinterillo (one who does office work) · de Bürohengst (one who does office work) · ja サラリーマン (one who does office work) · pl gryzipiórek (one who does office work) · bg писар (one who does office work) · fi kynänpyörittäjä (one who does office work) · es plumífero (one who does office work)